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Warren Castille · **03-20-2015, 09:48 AM**

Yeah, as we all know the only people to hang out in the Quicksand are the worst roleplayers. Rolleyes

ArmachiA · **03-20-2015, 09:48 AM**

^ That is why I added this in

(03-20-2015, 09:45 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: Never go to the Quicksand.*

(*It's a joke)

Because it's a joke.

Has anyone from the community actually been caught erping in public? Aside from ERP Hovel back in 2.0 days. I think it's mostly confined to private rooms now with sexual advances made in public.

Warren Castille · **03-20-2015, 09:49 AM**

Besides the occasional mistell, I haven't seen much, if anything, on that regard.

Coatleque · **03-20-2015, 09:50 AM**

I hang around the Quicksand quite often. I've never seen anyone ERPing in public channels.

Warren Castille · **03-20-2015, 09:51 AM**

(03-20-2015, 09:48 AM)ValkyrieRangris Wrote: I laughed. There was a guy in my party a while back in a dungeon that thought he was Kirito and was running around pretending he was in SAO during the dungeon. It was very funny.

I hope you see the irony in this.

Qhora Bajihri · **03-20-2015, 09:51 AM**

(03-20-2015, 09:38 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Allow me to propose a challenge. If your backstory will never come up in character (as a way of avoiding the issues above), what benefit is it to have in the character's storyline?

There's a silly anime called The Devil is a Part-Timer where Satan (from a highly trippy canon in its own right) ends up in "the real world" and works at MgRonald's. Yeah. Anyway, what makes the story is where he came from, even though he can't share it with the populace - Satan serving burgers, ahha! And then... he makes manager!

Granted, what also makes the story are the other characters from his world, the part where they're theoretically trying to get back to the place they came from and/or deciding whether or not they'd like to stay, and the part where he can hulk out in Satan-mode when he needs to. A roleplayer trying this kind of cross-dimensional thing probably isn't going to have the benefit of interactions with other characters from their previous world (unless they bring their own, which starts to move into weird) and really can't hulk out in PreviousDimension-mode without ruining ordinary folks' fun.

What I mean to say is there's an element to Valkyrie-working-at-a-fried-fish-stand-in-Eorzea that a player might find fun, but they'd have to find it fun all on their own, without anyone else's approval, without the benefit of anyone else being in on that part of the story, except maybe in a not-taking-oneself-seriously way. There's no real reason to remove that element of the fun, unless it starts getting in the way of a desire to be part of the community, which right off the bat it can obviously do.

ArmachiA · **03-20-2015, 09:52 AM**

I was doubtful anyone had been caught doing it, the roleplayers on FFXIV seem to be a lot more discreet than that.

(Though back in 2010, Ellion did catch three people ERPing in say launch day in 1.0)

But yeah, not seeing how erp is relevant.

Edvyn · **03-20-2015, 09:53 AM**

if you wanna stick to the norse mythology thingo you could make her a limsan, they're vaguely nordic

like, what if you played as a hyur which is basically a viking? you could quite easily make a spear-wielding viking chick and end up strongly resembling a valkyrie, valkyries are basically viking angels anyway

if you're intent on playing a healer, you could probably do the same thing but substitute spear with cane/book/whatever (kinda hard to get a valkyrie look on healing classes though)

you can quite easily use nordic culture without being part of their myths

ArmachiA · **03-20-2015, 09:55 AM**

I always assumed Highlanders were kind of Nordic anyway.

Edvyn · **03-20-2015, 09:57 AM**

(03-20-2015, 09:55 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: I always assumed Highlanders were kind of Nordic anyway.

i always thought of them as fantasy mexicans cos ala mhigo sounds mexican to me

Coatleque · **03-20-2015, 09:57 AM**

(03-20-2015, 09:55 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: I always assumed Highlanders were kind of Nordic anyway.

That or Scottish. I always see people giving them a Scottish accent. I think there's an NPC with a quest somewhere that did it as well which is what they draw on.

Edvyn · **03-20-2015, 09:59 AM**

(03-20-2015, 09:57 AM)Coatleque Wrote:
(03-20-2015, 09:55 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: I always assumed Highlanders were kind of Nordic anyway.

That or Scottish. Â I always see people giving them a Scottish accent. Â I think there's an NPC with a quest somewhere that did it as well which is what they draw on.

none of the scots i know speak in apostrophes Cool

ValkyrieRangris · **03-20-2015, 10:00 AM**

(03-20-2015, 09:51 AM)Qhora Bajihri Wrote:
(03-20-2015, 09:38 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Allow me to propose a challenge. If your backstory will never come up in character (as a way of avoiding the issues above), what benefit is it to have in the character's storyline?

There's a silly anime called The Devil is a Part-Timer where Satan (from a highly trippy canon in its own right) ends up in "the real world" and works at MgRonald's. Yeah. Anyway, what makes the story is where he came from, even though he can't share it with the populace - Satan serving burgers, ahha! And then... he makes manager!

Granted, what also makes the story are the other characters from his world, the part where they're theoretically trying to get back to the place they came from and/or deciding whether or not they'd like to stay, and the part where he can hulk out in Satan-mode when he needs to. A roleplayer trying this kind of cross-dimensional thing probably isn't going to have the benefit of interactions with other characters from their previous world (unless they bring their own, which starts to move into weird) and really can't hulk out in PreviousDimension-mode without ruining ordinary folks' fun.

What I mean to say is there's an element to Valkyrie-working-at-a-fried-fish-stand-in-Eorzea Â that a player might find fun, but they'd have to find it fun all on their own, without anyone else's approval, without the benefit of anyone else being in on that part of the story, except maybe in a not-taking-oneself-seriously way. There's no real reason to remove that element of the fun, unless it starts getting in the way of a desire to be part of the community, which right off the bat it can obviously do.

Thank you for the suggestion, its a really good idea. I do not think I be able to handle being the MC though, that is a lot of pressure!

Question. Is there some kind of NPC that is super spooky? Spooky backstory?

Also I generally really love the idea how the MC in Saya no Uta sees things. I could do something like that with the void? Not constantly seeing things disturbed but rarely and very subtle.
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ValkyrieRangris · **03-20-2015, 10:02 AM**

(03-20-2015, 09:53 AM)Edvyn Wrote: if you wanna stick to the norse mythology thingo you could make her a limsan, they're vaguely nordic

like, what if you played as a hyur which is basically a viking? you could quite easily make a spear-wielding viking chick and end up strongly resembling a valkyrie, valkyries are basically viking angels anyway

if you're intent on playing a healer, you could probably do the same thing but substitute spear with cane/book/whatever (kinda hard to get a valkyrie look on healing classes though)

you can quite easily use nordic culture without being part of their myths

Edvyn you are very clever. I would of never thought of this. Thank you

Qhora Bajihri · **03-20-2015, 10:04 AM**

(03-20-2015, 10:00 AM)ValkyrieRangris Wrote: Question. Is there some kind of NPC that is super spooky? Spooky backstory?

Spoilery Tam-Tara Lore at Reddit

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